The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-01-13

Ice crop never was better.

WJAE BEE Ahl MEM
/. Ice crop never was better.
Wood has advanced in price here.
Where is the Reaper Mandatory?
No bridges IN the west side of Eato
this winter. What a pity!
Think of It'll Only thirteen years NOR
till the year 1900.
Everybody remarks, "Did you eve
see a nicer winter than this?"
Down to zero is now considered her
very pleasant winter weather.
The new Recorder has been installed
Hope he will prove an efficient officer
Arcanum will bore for gas-and !
will prove a ssbore."
Eclipse of the moon February Sth
visible here.
Delinquent taxes are now out for col
lection.
The week of prayer was observed b.
our churches in Eaton.
Hogs and wheat are slightly on tht
advance.
Never had better sleighing in thi.
neck of woods than now.
Miss Anna Jeffries, of Ludlow, KY.
is the guest of her Uncle Thos. Fulton
Glenn. Gilmore spent a few days Of
last week among his friends in Eaton
The etoboggan slide'' will become a;
great a craze as roller skating-and
then play out.
John Strobel has opened a ssFarmers
Hotel at his new residence on south
Beech street.
William T. Deem made an assign
ment last week to Geo. w. Deem and
Marks Deem. Liabilities unknown.
A man who makes a promise and fails
to keep it, is unworthy of that noble
title.
What heart-aches the broken prom
ises produce, of those upon whom you
depend.
Sleighing has been good during the
past week or so for the amount of snow
on the ground.
Ice ought to be a cheap commodity
next summer on account of cover pro-
duction."
1t would be far better if some of the
high-sounding prayers we often hear
had more heart in them and less words.
Tom Wilkinson shipped 179 ear loads
of stock from Eaton last year. That
was doing well.
Those who own sleighs and those able
to hire one, are enjoying the excellent
sleighing now with us.
"Short settlements make longfriends''
therefore all should settle up at the
end of the year.
Ohio has l,161 1853 children of school
age, 775, 149 enrolled, and an average
daily attendance of 5l7 ,s44.
We ~arepromised q genuine, ~rip-snort-
ing, hoop-bursting blizzard for the 10th
inst.
Phil. Miller lost his old gray family
animal on Monday last. Died of lung
fever.
The nuisance of small boys jumping
on sleighs as they go through town
should be abated.
Mrs. Sarah A. McCabe, relict of the
late Walter P. McCabe, died in Eaton
on Sunday evening last, aged sixty
three years.
spellin' skules, back-biters, slap-jacks,
paying what you owe, and every other
good and bad thing.
The Ohio Legislature will be petition
ed. to enact a law requiring scientific
temperance instruction to be taught in
the public schools of the State.
There was a cloak war in Eaton last
week and the garments sold down SO
low that some persons purchased their
supply for next winter.
Seventy-three a loads of grain and
hogs were shipped from Musselman &
Co.'s shute last month. How is that for
high?
Hog cholera prevails in twenty-three
counties of the State. In some of the
more important hog growing districts
the loss is estimated as high as so per
cent.
How about the poor in your neigh
borhoodp Are they provided for? We
don't mean the tramping, begging poor,
or the thieying, dead-beating poor, but
the really needy and deserving poor.
Every heart hath its own sorrow
every house contains a ghost! Deal
gently with thy fellow creatures, fol
thou knowest not what a load of grief
oppresseth thy neighbor,
The Loudenville Democrat recently
blacklisted the names of So persons wht
had aiken the paper without paying
their subscriptions. This way of dis
posing of non-paying subscribers is be
coming fashionable.
Buttons for female wear are becoming
so large that they soon will be big
enough for the wearer, when she il
caught in a rain storm, to snatch on
off, stick it on a hair-pin and use it TO.
an umbrella.
An exchange says eff subscription
to newspapers were ten cents. a yea
and whisky $3.50 a drink, there ar
some men who would have money t.
buy several drinks during the year, bu
never have enough to take a newspa
per-"
The largest toboggan slide in tn
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